It's a shame on the TV show people will recognize his face long before they should, depending on how things are filmed I suppose. I am thinking they will get it out of the way earlier than we'd expect.

I think, if you just dress him up differently, give him a posture that's completely different from the one at the beginning of the books, plus add a little makeup, grow his hair a bit... nobody'll recognize him :)If you've ever seen the Monty Pythons, you know you can have an actor playing several different roles without recognizing him !

Why would it mean the death of Dany? We have often had multiple viewpoints on the same events, particularly in King's Landing. With so much descending on The Mereenese Knot, I think we'll need as many PoV characters there as possible.

What an awesome idea of making Barristan a POV character. I love his story and his back story. This allows you to reflect as him and drop the reader some knowledge of the past. And on the upcoming episode. Some of the lucky insiders who got sent the first 10 episodes a couple weeks ago (a few whos opinons I trust a lot, like Elio), claim episode 5 and 6 are the best episodes or top 3 of the whole season. Can't wait 40 hours.

Very excited to hear this. ^_^ I'm nearly done rereading Storm, and I've always liked Ser Barristan, so I'm really looking forward to seeing more of him. Can't wait to see him kick some tail in the TV series as well. Bwa ha ha.